JMM/JMC has received many visitors in the past ten days, among them specialists
who are known for their research in the Nuba Mountains, such as Norwegian anthropologist
Leif Manger and Swiss journalist Oswald Iten.

Although the JMM/JMC mission will cease to exist in a few months time, the interest
of foreign visitors is still increasing. While some visitors have specific topics
of interest, most of them come to examine and discuss how the JMM/JMC is working
on the ground.

The Swiss author Oswald Iten wrote his thesis about the economic system of
Fungor village in the 1970's. Almost thirty years later he came back, now as
a reporter of Neue Zuercher Zeitung. He accompanied JMM/JMC patrols and shared
his valuable background knowledge with JMM/JMC staff and representatives of
the humanitarian agencies.

The Norwegian anthropologist Leif Manger, head of the Department of Social
Anthropology, University of Bergen, visited the JMC Headquarters together with
Omer Ishag Omer (UNDP). The team conducted an evaluation of the UNDP peace and
trust building programme. Mangers last monograph about the Nuba Mountains
was published in 1994: "From the Mountains to the Plains. The integration
of the Lafofa Nuba into the Sudanese Society"

Eric Berman, managing director of Small Arms Survey, a Geneva based
research organization specialized in DD&R issues, paid a two-day-visit to
JMC to establish the Small Arms situation on the ground, while Baboucarr Keita,
Chief CIMIC, AU CFC Darfur, and Nadia el Maaroufi, Civil-Military Coordination
Officer with OCHA, studied JMC's Civil-Military Cooperation model during two
days.